Online Dating: More Couples This Valentine's Day?

Are the magic, matchmaking powers of online dating sites creating a more coupled society? WSJ's Jason Bellini has The Short Answer. Image: Getty

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ten dollars to about chemistry right ... but I need all these websites that have former was secret sauce is ... these algorithms for matching one human being to another ... so well in on this Valentine's day is with all this new technology ... are there more couples today ... according to a recent study in the American sociological review the answer ... is pretty much know ... the Partnership for a as they call it ... is seventy two percent which is pretty much unchanged since nineteen ninety five the dawn of the Internet era of the big question myself everything from your sleeping habits to your diet to require meant to activities you like of course I like camping ... in fifteen years but that doesn't really matter to these things are really thorough ... props leading to longer relationships ... that has to wonder ... are more people getting married today ... well here's the short answer ... the long-term trend of fewer people being married hasn't changed if you look back to nineteen sixties seventy two percent of people over eighteen years old were married ... in two thousand ten that number was fifty one percent ... the first issue I really wanna know how or people meeting today ... so over seventy percent of heterosexual couples say they met on line difficult of them in the past two years ... now it's a different story for same sex couples are getting a lot more of the online dating thing ... that this forty one percent of same sex couples ... say they met through online dating sites but overall among couples are living together ... thirty one percent say they met through friends ... and and there are the brave forty three percent ... back she went over and introduce themselves to someone more say they get ... that hat workout ...